Domain Name News

A recent Government proposal calls that owners of Romanian .ro domain names should pay an annual fee starting next year, to renew ownership of their domain. It is not yet clear what the renewal fee …

As of 5th of December 2013, 1 more ICANN accredited registrar (Jetpack Domains, Inc.) is in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Please be …

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) send a letter to ICANN to voice the concerns of brand owners regarding ICANN’s New gTLD Registry Agreement (Registry Agreement) regarding registry reservation of second level domain names. IPO’s …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (IPO) sent a letter to ICANN on the 2nd of December to voice the concerns of brand owners regarding ICANN’s New gTLD Registry Agreement (Registry Agreement) approved …

ICANN today issued comprehensive advice to IT professionals worldwide on how to proactively identify and manage private name space leakage into the public Domain Name System (DNS) and thus, eliminate the causes of name collisions …

Nominet announced their next .uk Registrar Conference that will take place on Wednesday 5th March at the Royal College of General Practitioners in London. Nominet and its registrars are all adapting to a changing domain …

DomainNameSales (DNS) announced the new Godaddy/DomainTools Integration Option on the 7th of October 2013. These new integrations allowed DNS customers to list the names in their DomainNameSales.com account on a make-offer basis  at Godaddy.com and …

ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from Pacnames Ltd to Net-Chinese Co., Ltd. due to compliance actions taken by ICANN that resulted in the de-accreditation of Pacnames Ltd. The affected gTLD …

Marchex’s company Archeo just announced that it has added “Buy Now” functionality to the ArcheoDomains.com marketplace. Archeo, that owns more than 200,000 premium domain names, enabled “Buy Now” for 30,000 of its domains and all …

AdSense just added a feature that gives all publishers the option to view website and domain name performance reports in a variety of currencies. The currency can be any other than the payment currency. This …

Fox Entertainment Group, owner of the FX TV channel, has bought many FXX domain names in the past year. Fox launched a sister channel to the FX channel called FXX. The new channel got a …

Residents, companies and organisations based in the European Economic Area (EEA) countries of Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway will also be eligible to register domain names under the .eu top-level domain from 8 January 2014. This …

I am sure that most people didn’t miss me or even noticed that I was not writing on my blog. I took some time off. Yeah. A lot of time off. Some because I wanted …

Fadi Chehadé and Steve Crocker officially opened the new Washington DC office located at 801 17th Street Northwest during a ribbon cutting ceremony on June 13. This office serves as ICANN’s North American Engagement Center. …